I remember the week barrows came out. There was a method at barrows that was way better than doing barrows itself. It was from looting people that died there. I remember me and my cousin made almost 100m in the first month of barrows. I miss those times so much!
Doom scrolling is when you're constantly flipping to new short-form videos, typically on platforms like Tiktok, Reels, and Shorts. In the process of constantly looking for that dopamine from a video you like, you lose track of time.
Back in the day, we would spend hours gearing up to do barrows. Your hart would be pumping hard the whole time. When you open the chest and everything starts to shake... oh man the nostalgia.
We were absolutely soloing KQ after barrows release with veracs. It was hard, you needed very high stats for the time and "max" everything including stupid stuff like Clank's gauntlets, but it was certainly done. You got maybe 1 kill a trip but getting a d-chain drop was the best part of being a kid during that time.
Yes but most of this video is around straight after barrows release. This was absolutely not a viable method for 99% of players at the time ESPECIALLY straight after release.
I was doing low level barrows at the start of my account, had a frw dozen kc and got cocky. Trying to save on prayer pots (my only real cost) I turned off my prayer when i landed the last hit on Dharok. But it wasn't the last hit, he had 1 hp left. Then he did what Dharok does and hit me for max damage and kills me instantly.
Hehe, especially easy mistake to make back then since he would still be "redbarred" at 1hp. I almost forgot that that is somewhat of a modern-ish update. I don't remember when they ensured no red bar unless 0hp, but I think OSRS got it maybe in 2014 or something.
You didn't mention on the dust devil section: but their drops back in 05? SUCKED. The -ONLY- worthwhile drops? A battle/mysticstaff and the body. The droptables for most mid-level monsters got massively buffed in OSRS. So it's not like you could even farm dust devils and make your money back in supplies... You lost money unless you got a chain, most of the time.
And yeah, most players would never attempt Kalphite Queen due to the "immediate" drop on death mechanics back then... plus, the best strat (veracs) didn't exist until after barrows, so pre-barrows KQ? Near impossible.
Man, you mentioning Blue's being 9m honestly made me regret some decisions I made even harder.. Back in 2005 I had a couple hundred mil and was umming and ahhing over getting a party hat and mask set for the longest time.. And then I focused on School and work and forgot all about RS until 2011.. When I came back, they were over 100m and my cash stack was even back then considered to be chump change..
Some of my favorite nuggets of osrs content is the stuff that was made 2007 and earlier that still has major relevance today and isn't just dead content, i.e. dks, quests like rfd, dt, mm, and clues. But Barrows to me is the perfect example of this. Such a great variety of possible unique drops and is popular with players of a wide level range. Very accessible content that doesn't really get easier with better gear just faster.
now that i think about it barrows was a really bad update because it release the strongest gear in every attack style and in nearly every important slot. best top, bottom, helm for ranged, melee and magic. imagine if they released a raider where you could get a full set of primal, sagittarian and celestial (rs3 dungeoneering) from 1 raid. you would consider that too be a dogshit update.
The story you told of Billy is exactly how I did barrows back then and I also got nuked by dharok and devastated and didn't play for like a week. It was the first time I died ever aside from messing around in the wilderness with no real gear as I was super careful all the time back then because of how hardcore the stakes were. The worst part was even figuring out how to get back quest items that were bis back then like klank's gauntlets and having to go through the underground pass again which was way, way more annoying than it is now.
Then there are others who feel the barrows degrading slowly over time led to them making every item degrade as a "money sink" that even they eventually realized wasnt good and have almost stopped doing in favour of GE tax and death costs.
I remember in the early days of Barrows and player Gravestones where your Gravestone had a limited duration based on which one you had and after it ran out it went back to people being able to FFA your stuff. But other players could "Bless" your gravestone to extend the duration. One of my few early memorys of runescape is a bunch of people camping a gravestone at the Barrows chest. To this day i have no idea why but after getting the final brother and looting my chest i popped a prayer pot and blessed that gravestone. I to this day remember the censored rage spam those people waiting on that gravestone heaped on me.
As a kid, I wasn't a huge fan of Barrows. The ghasts always went through half my food, I wasn't skilled enough at the time to really understand the mechanics (I even used poison to kill them, while sitting and waiting for them to die), and it was an absolute pain to get to. Now, it's one of my favorite bosses to kill while chilling.
My clan gifted me a veracs set and I had to grind my defense to wear it. So worth it! It’s an upgrade from my dragon armor for some purposes, but I still use both. 😊
Degrading armor was a good choice! I didn't like it on corrupted dragon or pvp equipment, since I believed it would crumble to dust. Not sure if that was the case.
Correct. There was no repair options, it would go away completely. But the coolest part is that they were nonmembers. No spec attack obviously but if you pk’d with that in a nonmems you were a god
It's almost as if, if someone spends an insane amount of time grinding for something, developers probably shouldn't just casually throw away that investment. It seems that's a lesson Jagex is struggling to hang onto. But still, it's crazy how Barrows is still relevant and useful to this day (even if a lot less so than back then).
The core development comes from the linage of DND style early “MMO’s” that predates the whole World Wide Web. In essence that’s exactly what RuneScape is/was. An open world “dungeon” to explore with friends, raise levels, explore, go on quests, socialize. Go to the danger zone to have a battle of egos and strength. Risk it all for glory. That’s what made rs so popular among friend groups. Moving away from that imo is what has made the game boring and grindy. Everything is a competition now that no one actually cares about your achievements. I partially blame the new internet too lol.
I don't recall barrows ever being hated, but then again I was mostly hanging around national communities back then and haven't been reading too many of the English forums. Don't recall the items not degrading at first either, but maybe it's due to same reasons as well.
Shout out if you were alching your yew longbows inside Dharok's tomb, while also typing red:@@@ on top of other players so they couldn't see their HP bar
The barrows was not only such a great update for end game, but it also had mechanics that allowed for low levels to complete runs even if you were sacrificing a lot more money wise in resources. I still made struggle runs to get items in just zammy robes + slayer dart, and it worked! Barrows still rules!
I remember being the ''safespot'' guy for random noobs then stepping aside when Dharok was low health and after they died I looted their grave. Then I proceeded to loot the chest too. Now with the safe kiddy deaths it's no longer possible
I can get calling it a "safe kiddy death" but suppose you lag out and die in gwd or other instance bosses and there was no grave. And if you lose everything upon death, the average player isn't as willing to do harder bosses. I think the grave system is fair. Losing 100m+ because internet outage or something shouldn't be penalized.
I remember spamming the doors once the brother was already spawned to get another brother. pretty sure you could get as many brothers as you could until they just killed you.
I can remember doing Barrows in 2006 before the rework where the brothers wouldn't pop up on the screen all the time and the rooms were similar to any other underground cave instead of the Sleske powered rooms existed. But dying was so unforgiving so you only bring enough stuff you were willing to lose. And no one knew about the 83% to 88% for no bolt racks so every run was 100%
Hard to justify using barrows gear for bossing/minigames when most things in the game are trivialized by prayer. "Oh I could use the extra defence" vs "Oh my prayer just blocks 100% of the damage anyway". Exceptions apply
lol apparently your "warthunder" comment got so downvoted i had to scroll and scroll and scroll just so i could find it knowing it was here, and also downvote it.
I had a really good low p pot method for barrows within a year of the release kept it on the down low then stopped playing then I used it a ton when osrs came out. slayer dart + entangle you get about 4 attacks then you run around the coffin and wait till you can entangle again then I only needed p pots for karil and ahrim
Early 2000s is when me my brother and all my friends in hs played, I remember when barrows dropped. It was super tough. We used dragon halbreds to safe spot the kalphite queen before that got patched. But it's how a few of us got d chains
Still remember getting guthan spear and it was worth millions. I had no fckin clue what i was doing half the time and doing the whole run through rhe swamp up until opening the chest was so fcking long and punishing with the shit gear at the time
Thank you for the little history lessons, I always look forward to your videos! This was before my time (summer 06.) It's so awesome to learn about troubles from the early days!
many people I have played with back in the day loved the content as it was. problem is only few will know of a generation that truly knew what a gift of gaming was. we had nothing but time to kill back then.
Why you pretending ANYONE used the shortcut or the boats? WE all ran the WHOLE way back then. Losing/rotting 90% of your food in the process..Remember it had only just released so you probably had never been to the area before, and if anything like me didn't even know guide pages existed...
When people blocked for their friends I would walk through them and allow dharok to hit them when his hp was low. I got a good amount of money from that.
I remember doing barrows and got a guthans spear and sold it for like 7m I think. And realized I could merch Karils bows for way more money without the headache of trying to do barrows runs. I remember getting up to 250/300 bows at once and selling them off for 50-75k profit each. I would do that all day/night long until I had enough for all the party hats, Santa’s etc
God I feel like I'm reliving this exact same update with the new Boss Dungeon that just came out on RS3; Sanctum of Rebirth (ToA equivalent). New T95 magic weapons with a pretty common drop rate along with a t100 upgrade that isn't too much harder to get either. This update completely outclasses Nex: AoD and Vorago which drops the lot harder to get T92 and T90 equivalents respectively. Now Magic is just stupid strong and easy to come by the BIS weapons.
This just is not true, people loved barrows when it came out, the most anoying part was getting there, long walk. All the other negatives you mention are only bad from todays pov, we are incredibly spoiled with qol updates, but back then it was peak content. Nobody cared about balance back then, it was a different time in gaming where nobody even knew the meta.
Nobody actually knew that barrows didn't require magic boosting equipment for a very long time, even well into OSRS release. At level 1 magic using wind strike, you have a higher hit chance on Dharok than you do on the chicken on tutorial island.
Now that I think about it, Barrows degrading system also helped the economy because the sets are money sinks. Because you need money to repair them, it helps cycle money out of the game. Of course today, 350K for a full repair isn’t THAT much. Still, just an interesting thought.
Today it's easy to make that kind of money in an hour of combat because of all the drop tables. Back then monster drops were basically all junk except for one super rare item that you would make profit off of.
Colonello. Thank you for these videos along with the time and effort that goes Into them. I started playing In April 2001. These days when I get on I'm able to tele basically anywhere In the game. I have unlimited run energy which wasn't even a thing on classic. I can try end game bosses and If I die I just pay a small fee and get everything back. I have the ge to trade on without the fear of being scammed unless I'm trading for a rare which I can't afford so I don't have that worry. Anyways what I'm trying to say Is that I often forget just how punishing yet fun Rs used to be years ago. BTW when you mentioned the d chain It reminded me of when d meds and Sq shields were first released. I sold everything I owned to buy a d med for 3.5m which was a lot of money back then. I was the very proud owner for an hour when I gave my email out to a random player who keylogged me lmao. Also I remember when hitting your first 10, 20 and eventually 30 was mind blowing. 😂😂😂😂
It sounds f*cking insane today, but jad used to be as intimidating as the inferno, and barrows was basically TOB. I'm not even exaggerating. I think people were just clueless on top of the client sucking.
The degrade mechanic is one of the most annoying things in game, and only costs a trivial amount in modern gp. Also most pieces are just not that useful anymore, with only Dharoks full set being widely used, karils for defense, and ahrims for cheap mage. Barrows is long dead content, and players should pursue perilous moons or other modern gear instead.
I remember the horrid canifis to barrows swamp adventures, and the memorable bridge section. Also remember listening to creed while playing during my barrow runs. HOLLLD ME NAAHH
I didn't remember people hating on barrows at all when it came out. It felt exciting and mysterious - getting a full set was extremely difficult though. I was going for guthans and legit couldn't find anyone with the other pieces.
Misleadling title: Everyone who owned a dragon chainbody lost value, players who didn't were pleased. Not everyone hated it..., overdramatizing for the hype/attention
I click on the “osrs podcast” and I see you on there! You have no idea how excited I am about this, I have been watching you from day one basically and I am ecstatic to see you in a podcast style video. Absolutely my favorite content creator, keep crushing it. You’re doing an amazing job! Seriously
i was acctualy doing dust devil every slayer task i got (this would been in 07 or later, dont remember when) i ended up getting 2 of them from killing dust devils. and only did it on slayer, i know defenitly spooned in that regard.
Walking from East Varrock bank to barrows was literally me as a kid, until I saw this video I thought I was just a dumb kid that didn't know any better. Glad to know I wasn't the only one doing this 😂
Lol I remember when the OSRS servers were being constantly hit offline back in 2014ish and people were just sitting in the Dharok room on high pop worlds waiting for a dc 🤣🤣
I had an idea that may be up your alley! Where are our favorite creators of the machinima and rsmv days? It may be a little bit indirect to what you usually do with your videos but I think it could be a popular and fun topic to spend some time on. I'm trying to remember the significance of Drmmrguy59. I think it was rsmv's that they made but I also think it could have been some skits.
Back in my day I had to walk backwards uphill through the swamp for 50 miles to get to Barrows.
I was there aswel.
Yep build a bridge and run out of run twice and lose half my food to ghasts
Whilst performing a handstand?
And we LIKED IT that way.
And then try to melee all the brothers, eventually die and lose all your stuff.
The fact Barrows is still relevant (and is still rewarding) all these years later is a feat in and of itself.
also has to do with how well they handled power creep in osrs
ya even in rs3 they still get used not as much but for mid/low lvls :)
Barrows could use a small buff to the amount of runes we get there
@@TYy-n4m I think the diary rewards offer up to double the amount you get.
@@TYy-n4mnerd
This was literally my main money maker back in 2005. Didnt really know how to play good but i was amazing at waiting for people to die at barrows.
The game felt real when you actually lost items, eh
@hellowill the adrenaline rush you used to get when you were about to get sent to lumbridge was unreal. I haven't felt it much elsewhere in life tbh😂
He had us in the first half
I remember the week barrows came out. There was a method at barrows that was way better than doing barrows itself. It was from looting people that died there. I remember me and my cousin made almost 100m in the first month of barrows. I miss those times so much!
Late night doomscrolling interrupted by quality Colenello content.
Glad I’m not alone
Yes.
Damn, 3:30A.M. thanks for making me check the time 😂 Hit the nail on the head, Colonello dropping heat 🔥
What is doom scrolling?
Doom scrolling is when you're constantly flipping to new short-form videos, typically on platforms like Tiktok, Reels, and Shorts. In the process of constantly looking for that dopamine from a video you like, you lose track of time.
The armor till this date looks fire still. Amazing work by the art team here.
Back in the day, we would spend hours gearing up to do barrows. Your hart would be pumping hard the whole time. When you open the chest and everything starts to shake... oh man the nostalgia.
The Mr. Krabs meme got me 🤣
klanks gauntlets is such a forgotten throwback
I used them for so long! classic.
I used them until recently and did parts of Rfd for mith gauntlets.
We were absolutely soloing KQ after barrows release with veracs. It was hard, you needed very high stats for the time and "max" everything including stupid stuff like Clank's gauntlets, but it was certainly done. You got maybe 1 kill a trip but getting a d-chain drop was the best part of being a kid during that time.
Oh yes I remember seeing that 1st dchain, we were all simps for the release of dragon gear back then.
Yes but most of this video is around straight after barrows release. This was absolutely not a viable method for 99% of players at the time ESPECIALLY straight after release.
I was doing low level barrows at the start of my account, had a frw dozen kc and got cocky. Trying to save on prayer pots (my only real cost) I turned off my prayer when i landed the last hit on Dharok. But it wasn't the last hit, he had 1 hp left. Then he did what Dharok does and hit me for max damage and kills me instantly.
Hehe, especially easy mistake to make back then since he would still be "redbarred" at 1hp. I almost forgot that that is somewhat of a modern-ish update. I don't remember when they ensured no red bar unless 0hp, but I think OSRS got it maybe in 2014 or something.
ole Billy Boy is a hacker having a legends cape without DT being completed.
Wot
What? The quests are in absolutely no way tied together in terms of requirements
You didn't mention on the dust devil section: but their drops back in 05? SUCKED. The -ONLY- worthwhile drops? A battle/mysticstaff and the body.
The droptables for most mid-level monsters got massively buffed in OSRS.
So it's not like you could even farm dust devils and make your money back in supplies...
You lost money unless you got a chain, most of the time.
And yeah, most players would never attempt Kalphite Queen due to the "immediate" drop on death mechanics back then... plus, the best strat (veracs) didn't exist until after barrows, so pre-barrows KQ? Near impossible.
Man, you mentioning Blue's being 9m honestly made me regret some decisions I made even harder..
Back in 2005 I had a couple hundred mil and was umming and ahhing over getting a party hat and mask set for the longest time.. And then I focused on School and work and forgot all about RS until 2011.. When I came back, they were over 100m and my cash stack was even back then considered to be chump change..
Some of my favorite nuggets of osrs content is the stuff that was made 2007 and earlier that still has major relevance today and isn't just dead content, i.e. dks, quests like rfd, dt, mm, and clues. But Barrows to me is the perfect example of this. Such a great variety of possible unique drops and is popular with players of a wide level range. Very accessible content that doesn't really get easier with better gear just faster.
Dude I remember grinding so hard for those barrows gloves. The only close second was finally getting turmoil
I remember farming barrows for g spears cause at that time they were going for 8-15m looooooong time ago
now that i think about it barrows was a really bad update because it release the strongest gear in every attack style and in nearly every important slot. best top, bottom, helm for ranged, melee and magic. imagine if they released a raider where you could get a full set of primal, sagittarian and celestial (rs3 dungeoneering) from 1 raid. you would consider that too be a dogshit update.
The story you told of Billy is exactly how I did barrows back then and I also got nuked by dharok and devastated and didn't play for like a week. It was the first time I died ever aside from messing around in the wilderness with no real gear as I was super careful all the time back then because of how hardcore the stakes were. The worst part was even figuring out how to get back quest items that were bis back then like klank's gauntlets and having to go through the underground pass again which was way, way more annoying than it is now.
Then there are others who feel the barrows degrading slowly over time led to them making every item degrade as a "money sink" that even they eventually realized wasnt good and have almost stopped doing in favour of GE tax and death costs.
I remember in the early days of Barrows and player Gravestones where your Gravestone had a limited duration based on which one you had and after it ran out it went back to people being able to FFA your stuff. But other players could "Bless" your gravestone to extend the duration. One of my few early memorys of runescape is a bunch of people camping a gravestone at the Barrows chest. To this day i have no idea why but after getting the final brother and looting my chest i popped a prayer pot and blessed that gravestone. I to this day remember the censored rage spam those people waiting on that gravestone heaped on me.
early days of barrows and gravestones are years apart
Thats not early day barrows bro
That is hilarious, but I remember blessing a few gravestones too.
As a kid, I wasn't a huge fan of Barrows. The ghasts always went through half my food, I wasn't skilled enough at the time to really understand the mechanics (I even used poison to kill them, while sitting and waiting for them to die), and it was an absolute pain to get to. Now, it's one of my favorite bosses to kill while chilling.
Barrows is the best content to have been introduced to the game.
funny how i havent played runescape for about 8 years, and havent watched any rs videos for 2-3 years, but still got this video recommended.
Runescape was much more fun back in the days when we didn't know how the mechanics worked
There was more player interaction. Lack of pvp content like old Fist of Guthix kr Clan wars in Wildria. Zezima times
No
Torag needs a rework. I still think it's the coolest looking set. I looooove them hammmers smackkks
there’s a question in the latest poll regarding torags hammers
My clan gifted me a veracs set and I had to grind my defense to wear it. So worth it! It’s an upgrade from my dragon armor for some purposes, but I still use both. 😊
5:26 Who's that in the background? Hmmm
🤭
U said ths torags one is useless but karils is the useless one that lowers agility. Torags in a very niche situation could be useful
Degrading armor was a good choice! I didn't like it on corrupted dragon or pvp equipment, since I believed it would crumble to dust. Not sure if that was the case.
Correct. There was no repair options, it would go away completely. But the coolest part is that they were nonmembers. No spec attack obviously but if you pk’d with that in a nonmems you were a god
@10:15 NOT YOU lol I remember when i got my first set of torag hammers. not even the full set. ahhh i was one happy noob.
It's almost as if, if someone spends an insane amount of time grinding for something, developers probably shouldn't just casually throw away that investment. It seems that's a lesson Jagex is struggling to hang onto.
But still, it's crazy how Barrows is still relevant and useful to this day (even if a lot less so than back then).
The core development comes from the linage of DND style early “MMO’s” that predates the whole World Wide Web. In essence that’s exactly what RuneScape is/was. An open world “dungeon” to explore with friends, raise levels, explore, go on quests, socialize. Go to the danger zone to have a battle of egos and strength. Risk it all for glory. That’s what made rs so popular among friend groups. Moving away from that imo is what has made the game boring and grindy. Everything is a competition now that no one actually cares about your achievements. I partially blame the new internet too lol.
Your intro to this video reminds me of when I used to go into the falador mines and try to get bots killed for their rune pickaxes
You sound a lil sick there buddy, hope you get well soon!! Thank you for pushing out content though. :3
Thank you, I hope so too! :3
I don't recall barrows ever being hated, but then again I was mostly hanging around national communities back then and haven't been reading too many of the English forums. Don't recall the items not degrading at first either, but maybe it's due to same reasons as well.
Made my first 10m doing barrows when I was young looting other people's stuff who died
Shout out if you were alching your yew longbows inside Dharok's tomb, while also typing red:@@@ on top of other players so they couldn't see their HP bar
The barrows was not only such a great update for end game, but it also had mechanics that allowed for low levels to complete runs even if you were sacrificing a lot more money wise in resources.
I still made struggle runs to get items in just zammy robes + slayer dart, and it worked! Barrows still rules!
Well, I was one of the people who did get that Dragon Chain Body from a dust devil. Good times
I remember being the ''safespot'' guy for random noobs then stepping aside when Dharok was low health and after they died I looted their grave. Then I proceeded to loot the chest too. Now with the safe kiddy deaths it's no longer possible
I can get calling it a "safe kiddy death" but suppose you lag out and die in gwd or other instance bosses and there was no grave. And if you lose everything upon death, the average player isn't as willing to do harder bosses. I think the grave system is fair. Losing 100m+ because internet outage or something shouldn't be penalized.
when your scam doesnt work anymore :(
i used to take noted food and pots with me and use the general store it was heaps faster
Poor Torags. I remember Barrows on launch and the insane outcry from d chain owners, my first thought was "Oh sweet, I might finally afford a d chain"
You gave me ptad and also made me realize my hidden insecurities for bossing lol crazy trip down memory lane
I remember spamming the doors once the brother was already spawned to get another brother. pretty sure you could get as many brothers as you could until they just killed you.
beware of organized gangstalking
I can remember doing Barrows in 2006 before the rework where the brothers wouldn't pop up on the screen all the time and the rooms were similar to any other underground cave instead of the Sleske powered rooms existed. But dying was so unforgiving so you only bring enough stuff you were willing to lose. And no one knew about the 83% to 88% for no bolt racks so every run was 100%
Imo this is the best rs story telling channel on all of RUclips. Great video
Thank you so much!!
@@ColonelloRS only speaking the truth 🙏
You're a hero m8, these vids keep us sane
The fact that barrows gear broke was the reason I never bought any sets.
Good old times when dieing actually meant something in this game.
Losing your stuff was fine when it was black dhide, full rune, and mystic.
@@turnkey_holeyou realize that was pricey back then
@@jeremym6813 picking flax for a few hours would have you back up to speed.
@@jeremym6813no it wasn't
Youre just a noob
Crazy how Dharoks hits almost double that now.
not everyone had Dovydas to safespot Dharok
04-07 runescape absolutely prime
This video smashed me so hard with childhood nostalgia i nearly fell off of my chair.
Love the videos man
Thank you!!
Hard to justify using barrows gear for bossing/minigames when most things in the game are trivialized by prayer. "Oh I could use the extra defence" vs "Oh my prayer just blocks 100% of the damage anyway". Exceptions apply
People weren’t prayer flicking and prayer potions were expensive
Prayer pots were unironically more expensive than barrows upkeep back in those days.
This shows how much harder rs used to be. Kinda miss it, kinda dont lol
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Let's freaking go! WT is such a fun game, especially at low tiers.
Nah.
@@spiritofnex You must be easy to amuse and easy to scam money from.
lol apparently your "warthunder" comment got so downvoted i had to scroll and scroll and scroll just so i could find it knowing it was here, and also downvote it.
Holy f and I thought walking from canifis was bad haha
Barrows easy? It used be an incredible achievement to just walk there. I would never have dreamed of completing it back then.
Im so glad you're posting frequently again. I don't even play osrs anymore but your videos are always so interesting anyways
Glad you like them! Thank you!
Hoenstly i watch a crap ton of runescape yotube but I don't think I get more exicted to watch a video then when u drop one
Thank you so much!!
I had no idea about the shortcut behind the bar
I had a really good low p pot method for barrows within a year of the release kept it on the down low then stopped playing then I used it a ton when osrs came out. slayer dart + entangle you get about 4 attacks then you run around the coffin and wait till you can entangle again then I only needed p pots for karil and ahrim
why is 2005 billy wearing a regen bracelet
Still remember selling a d chain for 25m and buying a santa hat back in the day
You must've been good at hitting your word count on your papers lmao
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wtf three ads just for one video😢
2:30 is why I would bring noted food and pots.
Early 2000s is when me my brother and all my friends in hs played, I remember when barrows dropped. It was super tough. We used dragon halbreds to safe spot the kalphite queen before that got patched. But it's how a few of us got d chains
1:35 Nostalgia is hitting very hard here. Rune and dragon equipment, dragon longsword, killing tortoises. Holy shit
More like Bore Thunder Zzzzzz
Imagine doing Dharok last tho
Still remember getting guthan spear and it was worth millions. I had no fckin clue what i was doing half the time and doing the whole run through rhe swamp up until opening the chest was so fcking long and punishing with the shit gear at the time
Thank you for the little history lessons, I always look forward to your videos! This was before my time (summer 06.) It's so awesome to learn about troubles from the early days!
I am sure DH could hit 80+ on release, I think you forgot ultimate strength.
many people I have played with back in the day loved the content as it was.
problem is only few will know of a generation that truly knew what a gift of gaming was.
we had nothing but time to kill back then.
Why you pretending ANYONE used the shortcut or the boats? WE all ran the WHOLE way back then. Losing/rotting 90% of your food in the process..Remember it had only just released so you probably had never been to the area before, and if anything like me didn't even know guide pages existed...
When people blocked for their friends I would walk through them and allow dharok to hit them when his hp was low. I got a good amount of money from that.
I remember doing barrows and got a guthans spear and sold it for like 7m I think. And realized I could merch Karils bows for way more money without the headache of trying to do barrows runs. I remember getting up to 250/300 bows at once and selling them off for 50-75k profit each. I would do that all day/night long until I had enough for all the party hats, Santa’s etc
God I feel like I'm reliving this exact same update with the new Boss Dungeon that just came out on RS3; Sanctum of Rebirth (ToA equivalent). New T95 magic weapons with a pretty common drop rate along with a t100 upgrade that isn't too much harder to get either. This update completely outclasses Nex: AoD and Vorago which drops the lot harder to get T92 and T90 equivalents respectively. Now Magic is just stupid strong and easy to come by the BIS weapons.
I got full guthans as quickly as I could after the release of Barrows. I used that for slayer for soooo long. Saved a lot of money on food.
This just is not true, people loved barrows when it came out, the most anoying part was getting there, long walk.
All the other negatives you mention are only bad from todays pov, we are incredibly spoiled with qol updates, but back then it was peak content.
Nobody cared about balance back then, it was a different time in gaming where nobody even knew the meta.
PERFECT updates????????? It's boring as hell. So damn repetitive
Always the damn spade
Nobody actually knew that barrows didn't require magic boosting equipment for a very long time, even well into OSRS release. At level 1 magic using wind strike, you have a higher hit chance on Dharok than you do on the chicken on tutorial island.
Now that I think about it, Barrows degrading system also helped the economy because the sets are money sinks. Because you need money to repair them, it helps cycle money out of the game.
Of course today, 350K for a full repair isn’t THAT much. Still, just an interesting thought.
Today it's easy to make that kind of money in an hour of combat because of all the drop tables. Back then monster drops were basically all junk except for one super rare item that you would make profit off of.
Colonello. Thank you for these videos along with the time and effort that goes Into them. I started playing In April 2001. These days when I get on I'm able to tele basically anywhere In the game. I have unlimited run energy which wasn't even a thing on classic. I can try end game bosses and If I die I just pay a small fee and get everything back. I have the ge to trade on without the fear of being scammed unless I'm trading for a rare which I can't afford so I don't have that worry. Anyways what I'm trying to say Is that I often forget just how punishing yet fun Rs used to be years ago. BTW when you mentioned the d chain It reminded me of when d meds and Sq shields were first released. I sold everything I owned to buy a d med for 3.5m which was a lot of money back then. I was the very proud owner for an hour when I gave my email out to a random player who keylogged me lmao. Also I remember when hitting your first 10, 20 and eventually 30 was mind blowing. 😂😂😂😂
I don't play the game. I tried the mobile version and quit. However, I like watching videos about it.
It sounds f*cking insane today, but jad used to be as intimidating as the inferno, and barrows was basically TOB. I'm not even exaggerating.
I think people were just clueless on top of the client sucking.
The degrade mechanic is one of the most annoying things in game, and only costs a trivial amount in modern gp.
Also most pieces are just not that useful anymore, with only Dharoks full set being widely used, karils for defense, and ahrims for cheap mage.
Barrows is long dead content, and players should pursue perilous moons or other modern gear instead.
I remember the horrid canifis to barrows swamp adventures, and the memorable bridge section. Also remember listening to creed while playing during my barrow runs. HOLLLD ME NAAHH
"Hardest boss back in the day"
Bitch, ok. Im running with almoat max 2024 gear, and i still get mollywopped on solo kills for the kalphite queen. Ffs.
I didn't remember people hating on barrows at all when it came out. It felt exciting and mysterious - getting a full set was extremely difficult though. I was going for guthans and legit
couldn't find anyone with the other pieces.
Misleadling title: Everyone who owned a dragon chainbody lost value, players who didn't were pleased. Not everyone hated it..., overdramatizing
for the hype/attention
I click on the “osrs podcast” and I see you on there! You have no idea how excited I am about this, I have been watching you from day one basically and I am ecstatic to see you in a podcast style video. Absolutely my favorite content creator, keep crushing it. You’re doing an amazing job! Seriously
i was acctualy doing dust devil every slayer task i got (this would been in 07 or later, dont remember when) i ended up getting 2 of them from killing dust devils. and only did it on slayer, i know defenitly spooned in that regard.
Walking from East Varrock bank to barrows was literally me as a kid, until I saw this video I thought I was just a dumb kid that didn't know any better. Glad to know I wasn't the only one doing this 😂
Lol I remember when the OSRS servers were being constantly hit offline back in 2014ish and people were just sitting in the Dharok room on high pop worlds waiting for a dc 🤣🤣
I had an idea that may be up your alley! Where are our favorite creators of the machinima and rsmv days? It may be a little bit indirect to what you usually do with your videos but I think it could be a popular and fun topic to spend some time on. I'm trying to remember the significance of Drmmrguy59. I think it was rsmv's that they made but I also think it could have been some skits.